Summary
Broken links found without opening a crawler.
A link checker is normally a separate tool you have to remember to run. Here it is a question asked mid-conversation, and the answer comes back with the redirect target and the response time already attached.
What it is
An MCP server that checks links for you. It fetches the target, extracts every link on it, and reports which ones are broken, which redirect, and which never answer.
What you get
- Every link on a single page checked for 404s, redirects and timeouts
- A recursive crawl of internal pages, checking the links found along the way
- Every URL in a sitemap.xml checked in one pass
- Status, status text, redirect target, response time and location for each link
- HEAD requests first, falling back to GET when HEAD is refused
Requirements
Nothing to sign up for: npx -y deadlink-checker-mcp is the whole install. Crawl depth on deep_scan runs 1 to 3, and the free tier is capped at 1.
Setup effort
One command — npx -y deadlink-checker-mcp